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KDE Plasma Saw A Lot Of Bug/Crash Fixing & UI Polishing This Week

9 hodin 19 min zpět
Nate Graham and John Veness are out today with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma. Notable for KDE Plasma 6.6.x~6.7 development this week were a lot of bug fixing -- including multiple crash fixes -- and some UI polishing too...

Wine 11.4 Released With More Improvements

6. Březen 2026 - 23:47
Wine 11.4 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS...

GTK 4.22 Released With Improved SVG Support, Reduced Motion Option

6. Březen 2026 - 20:55
Ahead of the GNOME 50 desktop release coming up in less than two weeks, GTK 4.22 is out today as the newest stable version of the GTK4 toolkit...

New ASUS, Dell & OneXPlayer Hardware Support In Linux 7.0-rc3

6. Březen 2026 - 20:15
A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the likes of ASUS, HP, Dell, and OneXPlayer...

ZimaBoard 2: An Interesting Intel-Powered Linux Home Mini Server

6. Březen 2026 - 17:11
For those looking for a low-power, well-built small office / home office Linux server with interesting connectivity options, the ZimaBoard 2 is an interesting option that has been available for some months now and powered by the Intel N150 processor. Besides the interesting single board hardware and well built aluminum chassis, the offering is rounded out by being preloaded with ZimaOS as a Linux-based "personal cloud OS" to easily get hosting for your own SOHO server needs.

Linux 7.0 Slab Fix On The Way For A "Severe Performance Regression"

6. Březen 2026 - 15:23
Sent out today was this week's batch of Slab allocator fixes for the Linux 7.0 development kernel. Making this pull notable is fixing a "severe performance regression" with a ~64% performance drop having been noted in late February...

AMD CPPC Performance Priority Being Prepared For Linux - New Zen 6 Feature

6. Březen 2026 - 14:28
Patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for enabling a new feature called AMD CPPC Performance Priority as a new hardware feature being found with "future AMD processors".... Which given the timing of these patches, almost certainly means the upcoming Zen 6 processors...

Intel Xeon Features To Be Supported By Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - Some Lacking User-Space Packages

6. Březen 2026 - 14:17
Canonical engineer Serkan Uygungelen published a post outlining some of the Intel Xeon CPU features to be supported by the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, some Xeon features already supported by the existing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and some features only partially supported for still not having packaged user-space libraries/support within the Ubuntu archive...

Oracle Updates Free Solaris CBE For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Uses

6. Březen 2026 - 12:27
Four years ago Oracle announced Solaris CBE as the "Common Build Environment" version of Solaris 11.4. Oracle Solaris CBE is made available as free for open-source developers and other non-production use. Oracle this week released a new version of Solaris CBE for those wanting this free* version of Solaris...

NetBSD 11.0-RC2 Released For Testing

6. Březen 2026 - 12:15
The big NetBSD 11.0 release continues on approach with NetBSD 11.0-RC2 having been released as the latest test candidate...

Haiku OS Pulls In WiFi Driver Updates From OpenBSD, Other Improvements In February

6. Březen 2026 - 12:12
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project had an eventful February with a number of driver improvements and a variety of other enhancements...

Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension

6. Březen 2026 - 11:55
Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different clarifications and corrections to various elements of the spec...

Wayland 1.25 RC1 Released With Improved Documentation, Minor Changes

6. Březen 2026 - 3:55
Simon Ser announced the release today of Wayland 1.25 RC1 (Wayland v1.24.91) in working toward this next stable release...

GNOME 50 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes

6. Březen 2026 - 1:51
GNOME 50.rc was christened today as the release candidate for the GNOME 50 desktop...

System76 Comments On Recent Age Verification Laws

5. Březen 2026 - 23:33
System76 published a statement today regarding the recent laws coming about in California and likely Colorado and New York too around requiring age verification on operating system accounts and ultimately exposing the information (or at least age brackets) to apps and websites. System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS distribution and COSMIC desktop environment...

Rust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows

5. Březen 2026 - 20:09
Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language...

Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned

5. Březen 2026 - 19:35
The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers...

Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way

5. Březen 2026 - 18:20
With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it's past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here is a look at how the prominent file-system contenders are performing on the latest Linux 7.0 development kernel.

NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver Beta Brings New Vulkan Support & DRI3 v1.2

5. Březen 2026 - 17:13
Following the recent NVIDIA R595 driver release for Windows, NVIDIA today released the 595.45.04 driver for Linux users as a beta version in the R595 release stream...

Debian Still Debating AI Contributions Plus A Need For More Diverse Contributors

5. Březen 2026 - 17:03
Debian Project Leader "DPL" Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics in today's DPL updates were around AI contributions, Debian's need to become more diverse with its contributors, and needing more "thank yous" to show appreciation for contributions...